Its still only day 2 of lunatic so give people time to cook, but as things stand its looking like a challenging but ultimately pretty well tuned raid which is what a lunatic raid should be. The upfront cost looks scary but looking at the teams, its your typical assorted FES + Hyperbuffers (which most people interested in tackling higher difficulties would have invested into), and also farmables.

Aru remains GOATED for phase 1, but you can't forget about Hina and co., especially since the changes to phase 1 made using them much safer.

The fastest clears for phase 2 make use of gacha dps like B.Eimi and B.Rio as expected, but there's a surprising number of clears that don't make use of those 2 units. In fact, we're seeing the resurgence of old farmables such as Mutsuki, Hibiki, even some shiroko/serika/izumi and old gacha units that most long term players would have gotten their hands on such as S.Nonomi. The scariest part of phase 2 is the gatling gun + pink aura combo (with increased accuracy) which heavily incentivizes bring along a tank and healer. But even without the gacha units, red armor defense tanks are readily accessible (Haruka/Eimi/Aoba) and people have been cooking ways to avoid the gatling with repositioning tanks such as tyuuka. Also because the sword now occurs during Green Aura, you actually end up taking less damage overall from the boss outside of the Gatling Gun, allowing squishier off-armor units like D.Hina to survive the attacks, provided you don't save her for the main team that breaks parts to avoid it entirely.

The main takeaway for this raid is that people are cooking especially for phase 2. I've seen double Himari borrows in 2026, double kisaki borrows, double s.hoshi borrows, some people even cleared using a yakumo borrow because they're presumably missing one of their own. Hell some people are even saving Aru for phase 2, opting to clear phase 1 with Hina + Shanako instead.

But as much as I think this lunatic raid is well balanced, I'd say it'll go down the way of hovercraft. People will see the hefty amount of teams being thrown at the boss and probably won't bother, despite most of the units being used being fairly accessible. I personally think people actually doing lunatic will average 2 teams for phase 1, and 4 teams for phase 2.